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Q. 2. Read the following passage and do the activities
A1. Simple factual Activity.
(i) The Greek leaders decided to follow the advice of
(ii) The Trojans thought that the long siege was...
(iii) The last man who entered the wooden hourse was
(iv) Troy was taken, not by force but....
himself.
At last Troy was taken, not by force but by trick. It was the cunning Odysseus who
thought of a plan to obtain the victory.
"Let us build a great wooden horse, he said, "big enough to hold men inside it, and let
some of our best fighters hide in the horse. Then let us burn our tents and pretend to sail
away in our ships. But instead of sailing away, we will return in the night. When the
Trojans are asleep, we will attack the city and burn and kill.
The Greek leaders decided to follow the advice of the wise Odysseus. So a great horse
of wood was made by a skilful engineer, and the greatest heroes, Menelaus, Odysseus
himself, and others entered it, the last man to go in being the architect himself who knew
the secret of opening and shutting the entrance. That evening the Greeks burned their tents
and sailed away in their ships, but they did not go very far. Only one man was left behind to
persuade the Trojans to drag the horse into their city.
Next day the Trojans woke up, expecting to go out and fight as they had done for the
past ten years. What delight and surprise they felt at the sight they saw on the seashore out-
side the walls ! It seemed that the long siege was over at last. The tents had been burnt The
shore was deserted. The Greek ships had all gone.
"It's peace at last," they cried, and opened wide their gates and came out in large num-
bers on the plain, glad to be free again to go where they pleased. Then they saw on the
sands the huge, wooden horse. They gathered round it in astonishment, for it was indeed a
wonderful piece of work.
Answers
Answer:
The Trojan Horse is a story from the Trojan War about the subterfuge that the Greeks used to enter the independent city of Troy and win the war. There is no Trojan Horse in the original poems by Homer about the Trojan War, and the conclusion of the story is marked by the retrieval of Hector's corpse (a great Trojan hero) by his father, Priam (king of Troy), from the willing hands of Achilles (the Greek general), though under the watchful and disagreeable eye of Agamemnon (the Greek king); the implication is that the Trojan War ended in amicable peace.
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complete the following sentences. (1) The Trojans thought that the long siege was (2) The last man who extered th wooder horse was. (3) Troy was taken, not by force but (4) The Greek leaders decided to follow the advice of